A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has developed a new statistical method-MutRSeq-for detecting differentially expressed single nucleotide variants (SNVs) based on RNA-seq data. Specifically, we focus on nonsynonymous mutations and employ a hierarchical likelihood approach to jointly ...
Read More »Shannon – An Information-Optimal de Novo RNA-Seq Assembler
De novo assembly of short RNA-Seq reads into transcripts is challenging due to sequence similarities in transcriptomes arising from gene duplications and alternative splicing of transcripts. A team led by researchers at the University of Washington have developed Shannon, an ...
Read More »RiboTag is a flexible tool for measuring the translational state of targeted cells in heterogeneous cell cultures
Primary neuronal cultures are a useful tool for measuring pharmacological- and transgene-regulated gene expression; however, accurate measurements can be confounded by heterogeneous cell types and inconsistent transfection efficiency. Here researchers from the University of Washington describe their adaptation of a ...
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